Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Oteys Sierra Village, California

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The result was delete. Sandstein 16:32, 5 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Oteys Sierra Village, California

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This is a strange one, but as yet another place cited only from GNIS and Durham, I cannot find any documentation of what was actually at this site. Topos show two rows of buildings which eventually disappear, leaving a blank spot. I found an obituary which stated that the subject was "raised at Oteys Sierra Village in West Bishop near Rocking K." This tends to suggest that this was a facility rather than a town, as does the peculiar name. Other than that, I found nothing other than name drops as a location; book hits in particular were extremely thin. If Durham actually explains what was here, that would help, but I'm really loathe to keep an entry based solely on GNIS. Mangoe (talk) 04:23, 28 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

So further searching produced a patron's ad in an old high school yearbook reading "OTEY'S SIERRA VILLAGE Groceries". This tends to point to it being a commercial enterprise rather than a community or neighborhood. Mangoe (talk) 01:10, 29 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of California-related deletion discussions. Spiderone 09:13, 28 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Geography-related deletion discussions. Spiderone 09:13, 28 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Delete - Well, newspapers.com wasn't much help for me, as when I searched for the exact string "Oteys Sierra Village" I got nothing. Google brings up that one obituary. I found a few Gbooks mentions as a landmark, but I'm finding nothing explaining what this was. WP:GEOLAND and WP:GNG do not seem to be met. Hog Farm _Bacon 23:13, 28 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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